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From: Sean C
Date: 2013 Jun 27, 20:34 -0700
Excellent! All of your answers were very close. (And only off due to my hasty sights, to be sure.) My numbers mostly agreed with Bill's second post.
My actual longitude was 76°28.55'W. That's ~2nm west of where I calculated my position to be. Not bad for a plastic sextant which I probably didn't acclimate long enough, as evidenced by the rather large change in IE. It's interesting to me that the results fall in pairs on either side of the actual longitude.
Incidentally, I used Stan K.'s "Celestial Tools 4.0.2" to average the times and sights. I used +2!8 for the IC.
Thanks for the replies!
Regards,
Sean C.
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